Staff and students at a school in south Winnipeg have been told to avoid a nearby forest until further notice, after an incident Tuesday morning.
Global Winnipeg has obtained a letter sent to parents from the principal at Collège Jeanne-Sauvé, which details an encounter a Grade 9 phys-ed class had with a homeless person in the Dakota Forest.
The letter said the students were in the forest with their teacher when they walked past a tent, and an unsheltered person allegedly came out and chased after them.
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One student was injured in the incident but didn’t need medical attention, the letter said.
Police said they carried out a full investigation and that there were insufficient grounds to lay any charges.
Global Winnipeg has reached out to the Louis Riel School Division for more information.
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